The irreverent Project213, just one of Jared Hallock’s several artistic endeavors, is an idea that finds difficulty sticking to one lane — those of us that have been internet savvy throughout the aughts and beyond might remember the group’s nearly decade-old proto-meme “Everybody Masturbate,” but a quick check of Hallock’s own YouTube page shows that the band has been all the more active since, with their most-watched release gaining an…
Protests and funerals have been walking hand in hand for the better part of the last few years as the ongoing fight for justice in the Black community has raged forward to an unprecedented level, and the new music video for Miss Storm’s single “Quicksand” is a painful reminder of just how real the crisis we’re facing as a nation right now really is. Forget the politics and the talking…
Rebellion in the rock genre is back and better than ever right now, and I’m not talking about the hybrid hip-hop/punk acts that have been taking over the mainstream exclusively. Buried beneath the pop music culture that you’ll find anywhere on the FM dial right now is a feverishly talented underground scene cultivating what sounds, feels, and seems to be some of the realest punk rock we’ve heard since the…
Pop/rock influences combine with a steadily melodic hip-hop persuasion in the new single from Stringz EMB, “Hijacked,” but while this might sound like just another hybrid rap track dropping this spring on paper, this is no run of the mill hip-hop single. There’s considerable depth to the instrumental framework of “Hijacked” that is hard for even the more discriminating of critics among us to ignore, and although Stringz EMB has…
Danger is all around in the new music video for XIIDC’s new single “3 Ninjas,” and I’m not talking about the visual setup alone. There’s an ominousness shadowing the verses that Artshow, Spell the Three and Typhanie & Co. are giving up in this performance, like a night stalker creeping behind us in the shadows, and yet there isn’t a drop of intimidation affecting the performance of these three rappers.…
The concept for Goldthread’s new single and music video “Tiffany Skylight” is pretty simple – push each other as much as possible to get the most dynamic effect out of the music. All the familiar rock n’ roll ingredients have been included in this recipe for rhythm-centric heavy music, but without the energy that these players are nudging each other forth with, “Tiffany Skylight” likely wouldn’t sound like the hard-hitting…
Although it features a heartily synthesized melody at the center of its arrangement, the new single “Say Nothing” from Flume and May-A doesn’t sound inorganic in the least. This is largely because of the vocal charisma its two stars offer from behind the mic, but even relative to some of the other clubby pop music I’ve been spinning this March, there’s something a lot warmer and truer to the artistic…
Geno Marriott’s new music video for his single “Take the Time: Smell the Roses” definitely lives up to its title in more ways than one, starting with the way it uses tempo to get us to appreciate the intricacies of nature on screen. Even though the music is merely a soundtrack, presented by Marriott himself in the video, it feels embedded with every frame of earthly beauty we see in…
A rock single is nothing without a signature riff, and Ignescent’s “Remnant” definitely has something special. The fretwork in this track isn’t quite the face-numbing brutality you would expect from a conventional heavy rock single, but it doesn’t need to be – the lumbering rhythm of the riffage here is enough to make anyone a rocker for life. Ignescent has a lot of competition coming at them from virtually every…
Pop-punk is pretty much everywhere once again in 2022, but this doesn’t mean there are many players in the mainstream doing the genre justice. I’m not talking about the usual suspects, the veterans, or the puritans either – when you’ve got more crossovers in this style of music than straight-up players, the fans can tell, which is why the Fizzgigs are getting the kind of love from listeners they are…
